Curriculum Worksheets
- Bachelor of Science (Four Year Nursing Program RN4—Transfer) (PDF)
- Bachelor of Science (Four Year Nursing Program RN4—Freshman) (PDF)
- Accelerated BS with a Nursing Major (PDF)
- RN/BS Completion Program
- Family Nurse Practitioner (FNP) Master of Science (MS), Certificate of Advanced Graduate Studies (CAGS), and Doctor of Nursing Practice (DNP) (PDF)
- Adult Gerontology Acute Care Nurse Practitioner (AACNP) Master of Science (MS), Certificate of Advanced Graduate Studies (CAGS), and Doctor of Nursing Practice (AACNP-DNP) Program (PDF)
- Psychiatric Mental Health Nurse Practitioner (PMHNP) Master of Science (MS), Certificate of Advanced Graduate Studies (CAGS)
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Students are expected to achieve the following characteristics and attributes by the completion of their program:
Within the framework of primary health care and consistent with professional standards, the student will be able to:
- Demonstrate critical thinking and clinical reasoning to arrive at sound and effective clinical judgments.
- Provide culturally competent patient-centered care to individuals, families, groups, and communities.
- Provide safe, comprehensive, high quality, and technologically competent care for diverse populations.
- Integrate concepts of inter and intra-professional communication, holism, health promotion, and disease prevention in the delivery of primary health care.
- Establish community partnerships promoting health from a local through global perspective.
- Integrate nursing theory and research in an evidence-based approach to nursing practice.
- Demonstrate accountability for the legal and ethical principles of professional nursing practice in a socially responsible manner.
- Utilize leadership skills and strategies to promote quality patient care.
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Within the framework of primary health care and consistent with professional standards, the student will be able to:
- Use theory from wide range of disciplines to facilitate and provide primary health care.
- Provide culturally competent, holistic health care that affirms human diversity and commonalities and addresses the concerns of aggregates.
- Evaluate the health of individuals, families, groups, and communities using ecological and global perspectives.
- Initiate change to improve nursing practice and primary healthcare delivery.
- Apply theory, research, and other accepted forms of evidence to provide evidence-based practice.
- Manage human, fiscal, and other healthcare resources to provide high quality, cost-effective care.
- Demonstrate skill in collaboration and leadership within the context of interdisciplinary healthcare systems and policy arenas.
- Demonstrate accountability for ethical decision-making in the provision of primary health care.
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Within the framework of primary health care and consistent with professional standards, the student will be able to:
- Synthesize relevant theories from a variety of disciplines to develop frameworks for culturally competent, evidence-based advanced practice nursing in primary health care.
- Guide the provision of culturally competent evidence-based primary health care to individuals and populations in a variety of primary health care practice settings.
- Evaluate evidence related to clinical, educational, cultural, and organizational issues, needs and challenges to recommend a course of action for best practices in primary health care.
- Design mentorship roles in primary health care clinical practice in the development, implementation and evaluation of culturally competent, evidence-based best practice protocols and projects.
- Integrate relevant information technology to support culturally competent, evidence-based primary health care delivery.
- Create change in health policy using the best available evidence with a culturally competent primary health care perspective.
- Develop collaborations with other disciplines and essential stakeholders to provide culturally competent, best practices in primary health care.